ALTON HUNDRED 



BRAMSHOTT 



Robert Knight, 34 who, according to the parish 

 registers, resided on the estate in 1638 at a mansion 

 called Fir Grove, 35 of which the remains indicate 

 that it was a considerable house. Later in the 

 seventeenth century the manor was in the possession 

 of Sir William Meux, bart., 

 of Kingston, Isle of Wight, 

 whose eldest daughter Eliza- 

 beth married Sir John Miller, 

 bart., M.P. for Chichester, 

 and their great-grandson, Sir 

 Thomas Miller, bart., M.P. 

 for Portsmouth, was in pos- 

 session of Ludshott in 1 792. 36 

 After Sir Thomas Miller's 

 death the manor was pur- 

 chased, about the year 1825, 

 by Sir Archibald Macdonald, 

 bart., formerly chief-baron 

 of the Exchequer, who pulled down the old house 



MILLER. Silver a 

 wave azure between 

 three viol-vet" beads rased 

 gules. 



Confessor as an alod by Lanch, but at the time of 

 the Domesday Survey it was in the possession of the 

 Conqueror himself. 37 A mes- 

 suage and lands in Chilteleye 

 were conveyed in 1 2967 by 

 John de Holtham to another 

 person of the same name. 38 

 The ' vill ' was held in 1316 

 by Ralph de Camoys, 39 who 

 had holdings in the adjacent 

 parts of Sussex. In 1346 

 William de Chiltele is re- 

 turned as holding in Chiltley 

 the eighteenth part of a 

 knight's fee, formerly John 

 de Chiltele's. 40 John Weston 

 of Chiltley is mentioned in 1387," and the 

 'manor' of Chiltele was held in 1452 by John 

 Weston, of Miles Windsor as of his manor 

 of Stanwell in Middlesex." In 1562 John Carrill 



HOOKE. Quarterly 

 sable and silver with a 

 cross betvjeen four escal- 

 lops all countercoloured. 



ROYAL ANCHOR HOTEL, LIPHOOK. 



at Fir Grove and built Woolmer Lodge, which, 

 with the manor of Ludshott, 

 has since his death in 1826 

 remained with his descend- 

 ants to the present time, his 

 great-grandson, Sir Archi- 

 bald John Macdonald, bart., 

 being now lord of the manor. 

 The court rolls, which are 

 preserved at Queen's Col- 

 lege, Oxford, commence in 

 1400. 



CHILTLEr, Ciltlei (xi. 

 cent.) ; Chilteleye (xiii. 

 cent.) ; otherwise Liphook, 

 La Lepe, La Leephok, Le- 

 poke (xiv. cent.) ; Liephok 

 (xv. cent.) ; Lippocke (xvii. 

 cent.). 



Chiltley was held of the 



MACDONALD. Quar- 

 terly (i.) silver a lion 

 gules ; (ii.) gold an arm 

 in armour cut off at the 

 elboiV) the band holding 

 a crosslet Jitcby gules ; 

 (iii.) silver a galley 

 sable, -with oars and 

 furled sail ; (iv.) silver 

 a salmon swimming. 



of Warnham, Sussex, dealt with the manor of 

 Chiltley by fine, and in 1590 conveyed it to 

 John Hooke, 43 who (see above p. 492) was also lord 

 of the manor of Bramshott. In 1613 Chiltley 

 is returned as held partly of Richard Tichborne, as 

 of Alton Westbrook, and partly of Richard Knight, 

 as of Ludshott. 44 The descent of Bramshott and 

 Chiltley seems to have been the same till the death 

 of Richard Whitehead, when the latter manor passed 

 to Whitehead's co-heir Anne, who married John 

 Butler. Their grandson, James Butler, pulled down 

 the existing manor house and rebuilt it on the same 

 site. 45 In 1830 he sold the property, and it came 

 into the possession of T. P. Platt, and finally into 

 that of Sir John Hawkshaw, whose son, John 

 Clarke Hawkshaw of Hollycombe, is the present lord 

 of the manor. The court rolls commence in 1 5 1 1 . 

 The estate now known as FOLLET (Folle, xiv. 

 cent. ; Falleygh, xvi. cent.), was granted by John 

 de Venuz in the thirteenth century to Sir Adam 



* Feet of F. Hants, Mil. 13 Chas.I. 



35 Cape*' Rural Hampshire, p. 168. 



M Ibid. p. 275. In 1704 Samuel 

 Diggle acquired the manor of John 

 Goodyer (Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 

 X Anne). 



V V.C.H. Hants, 1.451. 

 "8 FeetofF.Hants,24Edw.I.No.2i6. 

 3 Feud. Aids, ii. 315. * Ibid.p-333. 

 Pat. 10 Rich. II. pt. i, m. 2. 

 42 Inq. p.m. 30 Hen. VI. No. II. 

 Feet of F. Div. Cos. East. 4 Elix. 



493 



and Hants, East., 32 Eliz. and Add. 

 Chart. 8,961. 



44 Misc. Inq. p.m. Chan. ser. 2, pt. 

 13, No. 52. 



45 Information from Walter Butler 

 of Empshott. 



